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by ywvcbk 2y ago
What about reverse mortgages or any type of loan with any collateral? It’s more or less exactly the same..
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Switch to a different broker? e.g. it’s just +0.5% https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/margin-rates.p...
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> videos of him touring SpaceX The marketing videos that he had made? Imagine him coming up with the spaceship equivalent of the CyberTruck at SpaceX. Even Boeing would seem like being great at what they do at that point…
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Pencil pushing for pennies at Airbus/ArianeSpace is probably not that appealing. Going to work for the Chinese or Russians? Well.. as long as you’re not planning to ever go back home. There aren’t that many options for people who want
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Why would it matter whether he technically founded Tesla? He basically built it from scratch regardless. Also What does that have to do with him (supposedly) being a talented engineer? He’s a brilliant strategist/visionary/CEO obv
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> very successful engineer Do you have any evidence of him ever being one? I mean he’s an extremely successful CEO and decision maker which is almost infinitely more important than just being an engineer. I mean was Jobs ever considere
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> but it didn't magically give them self-driving either. Perhaps. But isn’t Waymo way ahead of Tesla?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> likely in 5 years the number of androids Why would you ever want an unstable bipedal robot? Alternatives seem way more efficient. Also are you predicting that Teslas sales will collapse and they’ll lose most of their EV market share? B
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> that apparently today an equivalent rise would be impossible There is still a pathway for enlisted servicemen to become officers in the British army. So technically it should be possible?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Presumably the population density in Mexico, Bolivia and Peru was much higher. Also Spanish emigration into their colonies was quite low and they were much spread out. e.g. more English/British people emigrated to the Americas in the 1
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> It's not like those christians In their view they did, the existence of the “Spanish nation” is tangential. From their perspective they were culturally/politically Christians and whatever exact language they happened to speak
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Well.. the people doing the “reconquering” viewed themselves as [Roman] Christians first and foremost, that was the core of their cultural and political identity. Since they considered that territories were part of the Roman-Christian Empir
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> Some of it had just reappeared in the XV century, largely through translations of Arabic books; I thought it was mainly the Greek refugees fleeing from the Byzantine empire who “kickstarted” the Renaissance? Of course all the pillaging
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
The Portuguese were doing the rational thing and taking the much rational and safer option. Was anyone really going west before Columbus? Of course I assume the Portuguese might have discovered Brazil eventually anyway because of the ocean
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> and the vikings (presumably Leif Erikson) That’s closer to a piece of historical trivia though, the Viking discovery of North America had very limited impact and nobody in Europe was aware of it or understood the significance. What Col
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> using standards that should not be applied There were plenty of people willing to apply those standards back in those days, even if they rarely had significant political influence outside of a handful of cases. e.g. Las Casas (almost a
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> out occurred at exactly the same time that Columbus sailed for the East (by going west). Which is notable why exactly? Surely both Columbus and his investors were hoping to return. Who would give all that money to a descendant of Jew
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> this is ostensibly a tech forum There are plenty of non tech related posts on the front-page all the time? > barely readable Who even read anything besides the headline these days?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> He left Spain in August, the same week that Jews were kicked out. This explains why he left Spain Extremely absurd statement that makes absolutely no sense at all. Surely his investors expected him to return? If his (possible) Jewish
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
He and his son would have faced severe discrimination, wouldn’t even be allowed to hold public office and technically his descendants wouldn’t even emigrate to the Americans had it been publicly known that he was a descendant of Jewish conv
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> He was incredibly religious. In his Catholicism Possibly as a way to conceal his background? Of course that’s pure speculation and it wasn’t as bad yet until later in the the 1500s but Spain became an extremely racist society, people w
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> r, is how the same year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, 1492, How could that be related in any way? Presumably his investors did hope he would return and be allowed to enter the country? > Columbus must not have been very religious
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Why would anyone ever think that it could have been anything but a coincidence? Who would have sponsored his expedition knowing that Columbus would be legally banned from entering the country if he was successful? That just seems silly…
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> His choice to set sail for the New World on August 2, 1492, He could have just moved to Italy or the Low Countries? > does suggest he may have not converted yet. And he did while he was in the Americas? Why would the Castilian crow
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> AFAIK they welcomed converts with open arms (especially Muslim ones), While that was seemingly true in the 1400s when ex-Jewish Conversos had sometimes significant economic and even political power. That had changed by the 1500s, antis
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Christopher Columbus may have been Spanish and Jewish, documentary says(theguardian.com)
124 points by ywvcbk 2y ago|345 comments
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Yes, I knew all that. "Found" is still the the wrong word to use.
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> deranged? Can you elaborate what do you mean by that?
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
> was one of the most evil men > If anyone's corpse deserves a pissing on, it would be his. That's a strong statement. I mean he was obviously very cruel and greedy but I don't see how he was particularly exceptional in
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by ywvcbk 2y ago
Seems like a nonsensical click-bait title. They found his remains by confirming that they are indeed buried in the tomb with his name on it?

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